Welcome to my home page. Here you can find information about Vampire; the Eternal struggle.

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But first a brief history about me in relation to Vampire.

Very early on I had an urge to play games. In the eighties I got a Texas Instruments, which basically was a keyboard in which you can insert card ridges for games like Invaders. Later I got an Atari with more low quality games. In the early nineties this got replaced by a Nintendo Entertainment System 8 bits. This was a huge step forward in graphics and game play. Among the games were the Mario games, Zelda I, Metroid, Castlevania II and Megaman 2. I still own it and play from time to time for good old fun and frustration. If there is one thing to say about old games, then it is the fact that they were incredibly hard to win at a high level. A few years later we got a PC. Many more games became available to play. A few memorable games of that time are Warcraft II, Thief I and II, Magic the Gathering: Shandalar, Lords of the realms II, Duke Nukem 3D and Diablo. In 2001 I got my own PC with a more advanced graphical card. More hours were spent on great games like Diablo II, Warcraft III, Starsiege Tribes, Savage, Gothic II, Grand Theft Auto, Arx Fatalis, Starcraft, Hitman 2, Half Life and System Shock 2.

Since 1994 I play collectible card games.
First Magic the Gathering came into the picture. It is a game which gives you a lot of freedom in how to build a deck. A deck, for people who don't know, is a pile of cards you own and play with. It is a very balanced game and is very enjoyable to play. But on a more competitive level your choice gets restricted to a few leading deck types. All other decks seem to be inferior to those and have no chance of winning at all. Still, the non-competitive level of play is pretty fun in dual form. Multiplayer games becomes unbalanced early on (most of the time) and thus leaves most of the players in the game doing nothing while one player does his "trick" and eventually wins the game. Although I don't collect it anymore, I still play this from time to time in our local game store with the decks I have lying around here.
Once I discovered Magic the Gathering I also played some other collectible card games. A few of those I like to mention are Rage, Kult, Guardians and Quest for the Holy Grail. Rage is game based upon White Wolfs World of Darkness. Where control a pack of werewolves and try to gain honour by slaughtering other werewolves or corrupting and polluting monsters and spirits. Kult is a very underground, more sinister game. You assume the role of a devil or fallen angel and try to attract the majority of the world population to believe in you. Kind of bizarre concept, but it was a lot of fun for a while. In Guardians you control several armies of fantasy beings. The artwork of this game is very good, to bad the company went bankrupt. Quest for the Holy Grail is situated in mediaeval time during the era of knights and valour. One of your knights has to gain a curtain number of valour to achieve victory first. These and many other games were pretty fun for a short time, but don't have the dept like Magic or Vampire.